<div><strong>A Note Near You</strong></div><div>Add places to notes, and you suddenly have something useful on your hands. Free Android app NearNotes is a sort-of geo fencing of notes and checklists.</div><div> </div><div>Let's say you are stopping at the super market on your way home. Enter the location and a list of things you typically need to pick up. Now when you actually go to that supermarket, the app will surface the list for the supermarket.<br /> </div><div><img width="100" height="101" align="right" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=1e7b95a6-65a9-4699-8a30-8d26860ce51b&groupId=222861&t=1412088649653" alt="" />Obviously, you need to have your location services enabled -- you can use network location or GPS as well. </div><div> </div><div>All your notes are saved with their attached locations and the nice thing about this is that when you make a new note the options auto fill and you can then choose what to retain. You can make checklists or regular notes. It's a neat and well-designed app too.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Just Wynk For Music</strong></div><div>There's a surfeit of music apps. There are radio apps, including the FM app, that stream music anytime. All the same, Airtel has come up with a new music streaming app that joins Gaana and Saavn to offer an alternative. It's available free on iOS and Android.</div><div> </div><div><img width="100" height="101" align="right" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=e736de99-dff7-4a40-b035-1347a095fa16&groupId=222861&t=1412088658209" alt="" />Wynk has a library of over 1.5 million Indian and western songs, and is ad free. You can browse for music or tap into curated playlists. There are three flavours of Wynk. The free Wynk lets you stream music online. A Wynk Plus, gives access to downloads for offline use for Rs 99 on Android and Rs 60 on iOS. Airtel customers get a discount. A third option is a subscription for Rs 129 available to Airtel 3G users on Android giving access to unlimited streaming and downloads with no additional charges.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Take A Qwicknote</strong></div><div>keeping pace with more current interface trends, Qwicknote for Android is gesture enabled. Slide-outs on both sides of the screen hold the buttons to add new notes, folders, change settings, <img width="100" height="101" align="right" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=3fa71168-b49c-403f-ba3f-7d43ae27a8be&groupId=222861&t=1412088655440" alt="" />share, etc. When you start a fresh note, it doesn't take up the whole screen, but expands as you type. You can change text size and paper colour and opt for a checklist format or a regular note. Qwicknote syncs with Dropbox. You swipe away notes you don't want and swipe them back in if you've made a mistake. It's a slickly designed app. </div><div> </div><div>But there are a few annoyances. Big ones. Selecting, cutting and pasting text isn't particularly working. And while you can bring in photos, no handwriting is supported. The Android app is free but to get rid of a few minor ads, it's Rs 153.</div><div> </div><div>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 20-10-2014)</div>
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Mala Bhargava has been writing on technology well before the advent of internet in Indians and before CDs made their way into computers. Mala writes on technology, social media, startups and fitness. A trained psychologist, she claims that her understanding of psychology helps her understand the human side of technology.
